Agent of Kharma

Are you asking whether or not you can set a fast speed before the game starts? Yes you can, at the game setup screen.

[quote]Looks to me like this was brewing for a long time before Lincoln came to power[/quote] It has always failed me why people think that Lincoln fought the war over slavery. I guess the victors of a war always write the history - in this case the north. At any rate, Lincoln said time and time again that he was not fighting the war over slavery, rather he was fighting the war to save the Union. One of his quotes on why he was fighting the war: "My par

[quote]The war had nothing to do with slavery. The War Between the States began because the South demanded States' rights and were not getting them. The Congress at that time heavily favored the industrialized northern states to the point of demanding that the South sell is cotton and other raw materials only to the factories in the north, rather than to other countries. The Congress also taxed the finished materials that the northern industries produced heavily, making finished p

[quote]The industrial revolution in the North caused those states to prosper and gain more political influence and that was perceived as a threat by many Southerners. Social change in the North was shifting the public view against slavery and the traditional culture of the South and that added to the feeling of threat. When Lincoln won the election, the South feared their way of life was going to be legislated away by a unified Northern controlled federal government so they broke

[quote]a big part of the the reason for the civil war was the South saw the wealthyh, industrialized Northern states as trying to use the slavery issue as a way to keep the South poor so they could control the economy.[/quote] If I could rip out part of your sentence and modify it as such, I would in large part agree with it: "A big part of the the reason for the civil war was the South saw the wealthy, industrialized Northern states as trying to ...[deleted]... keep the South poor so

[quote]There has never been any Democracy in the United States. We barely have a representative Democracy. If you vote for president, you might as well be peeing in the ocean.[/quote] Right, but the real problem is, the candidates you are allowed to choose from have already been chosen by the "powers that be." In other words, the big corporations and the super-rich could care less which of the two candidates (democrat or republican, Obama or McCain) you choose - they've already

Nobody in the USA fought a war over slavery.

@Splitshadow, are you a Brit? [quote]I grew up in the South and saw racial prejudice as a societal norm.[/quote] I hear this sort of thing all of the time. I grew up in the south (the DEEP south) and I never saw racial prejudice. At any rate, one of the biggest changes, which dovetails and might even explain what you are saying, is that back in the day western countries and peoples (i.e. "whites") were nationalistic, and secondarily, "racial" (I didn't say "racis

[quote]I tend to agree with others, that the current Scramble bombers is OverPowered and is being abused, and it needs a nerf. But I don't know in what form or by how much. [/quote] I propose we start by creating a chart of the pros and cons of the "additional strikecraft abilities" on the carriers. Please feel free to modify, add to this, change it, etc. &nbs

[quote]George Washington was a barbaric warmonger who led a revolt over taxes which in today's standards were incredibly mild.[/quote] Actually, I have sort of an opposite view. I think he rightly revolted over taxes, where as we revolt over absolutely nothing these days. Send millions of our jobs overseas? No problem. Uncontrolled immigration? No problem. Bail out mega-corporations with public money? No problem. Eviscerate the Constitut

[quote]K first that is earthquake damage and one of those building just fell over the trade center was a whole different collapse more destructive Because of its size and mass these buildings cant be used that what accidental or earthquake collapse looks like because controlled collapses are alot like wtc but controlled the stuff is usually falling in on itself not outward because its a controlled implosion. the difference between a 4 story building and a 100 up story

This is what a building collapse looks like. The building doesn't burst into fine powder. Steel is not ejected laterally the length of a football field or two. The building is recognizable as a building, not as something that looks like it went through a blender.

[quote]Building 7 collapsed before the 2 WTC towers not after.[/quote] Hey EadTes, Building7 came down around 5:30pm, give or take.

[quote]You should watch the video you just linked, no stopwatch needed. Look at the rate at which the surrounding debris falls in correlation to the collapsing floors.[/quote] This is a fine point, I guess. We've heard different things from the government. First that nothing was free fall. Then, close to free fall. In the latest video I saw of one of the head government scientists for NIST, he admitted the buildings fell at "free fall" but said this isn't

[quote]Agent, the concrete wasn't all reduced to powder.[/quote] The vast majority of the concrete in the buildings was reduced to powder, along with everything else in the buildings. This is admitted by the government. Hell, it's admitted by New York Governor George Pataki, because I have him on video. The only stuff that wasn't reduced to powder was the steel. [quote]The particulate in that plume was not all concrete powder, very little of it was.[/quote]</

[quote]Yeh that would pulverize concrete to dust knowing its dust before u mold it it just went back to its original form its called physics.[/quote] This is the government's "pile driver" or "hammer" theory, where the top 7 to 8 floors (which had always been held up by the remainder of the building) for some reason decide to act as a "hammer" which then crushes through and pulverizes the entire remaining structure. Let's ignore for a minute what it would take to pulverize all

[quote]# I believe it was Daiwa who noted that your original post had a tone and style similar to many conspiracy theories and urban-legend-type circulatives, but as I said before that could be an accident of translation or just general writing style.[/quote] "Conspiracy theory" is a meaningless term, so I can't respond to it. As to writing in an urban-legend style or narrative, I don't know a damn thing about such prose or rhetoric, so I guess we can chalk it up to "accident

[quote]I have tried to be more than lenient here, but at this point I've seen enough to become convinced that this is not merely a bad turn of phrasing or someone with a limited grasp of English idioms... the only question remaining in my mind is whether Agent is just trolling or actually wants to convince people to this... er... "cause".[/quote] I've seen enough of these kinds of attacks. I haven't responded to any until now, but I'll bite. 1. What did I say to make you

[quote]Unless I've missed something, the OP is mostly just making himself look silly.[/quote] After re-reading this from Kyro, it occurred to me that I might have misinterpreted it. It seems that, in response to some other guy asking "where's the moderator," Kyro was trying to state "unless I've missed something, the OP hasn't done anything to warrant moderator attention." If this is the case, let me state it loud and clear: KYRO, I APOLOGIZE (for my response to th

[quote]Unless I've missed something, the OP is mostly just making himself look silly.[/quote] Kyro, I'm surprised. I would expect this from someone else. But from you? What did *I* do to make myself look silly? I didn't even respond to RAISTLIN's first 5 ad hominem attacks or so, where he called me a "fucking retard" unprovoked, among other things (see pages 1-2 of this thread). But *I'M* the one who's making himself look silly? Where the hell do yo

You are an example of the worst sort of cretin and monstrosity people have to contend with when they venture online. The real probability of getting your teeth kicked in generally keeps people like you somewhat in line out in the real world, but alas you don't have to worry about such things hiding behind an internet connection. I'm not going to try to "out-wall of text" you, and I'm not going to try to "out-shout you down." I'm also not going to keep making post after pos

Ahh, I see... wall of text wars! I could post my own walls of text in response, but I'll spare the reader. [quote]its hilarious to see your un-parsed regurgitation of information that was put to rest several years ago.[/quote] Put to rest by who? And according to who? There not only has been nothing "put to rest" my friend, the government's case actually keeps getting worse and worse as more time goes on. There now has been active super nano-thermite

[quote]building seven had a gaping hole (about a third of the structure) torn out of it by the collapse of the second tower (or possibly both, im unsure on that) and was left to burn for about 7 hours.[/quote] I asked him, not you. I already said I wouldn't dignify you, or certain others, with a response, but you keep polluting the thread with your misinformation. Building 7 did not have a "third of the structure" torn out of it. That is a bald-faced lie. It

[quote who="CoBBQ" reply="50" id="2594211"]I tell you what happened. First of all, the floors on fire did pancake and took out the few floors below it which left the structure unable to hold the weight of the structure above. Once that support went, you had one big frigging wrecking ball that plunged straight down the middle the of the towers which pulverized the concrete. This "dustification" is nothing more that hundreds of shattering concrete boulders constantly slamming

[quote]And TBH, the credentials you present are like a roadie claiming to be a good musician because he 'was on the last tour' with Aerosmith. [/quote] First, you attack me by saying "go take some structural engineering courses." Then, when I say I have not only taken structural engineering courses, I have done structural engineering work, you attack me again with the above. Obviously, you are just another asshole with nothing constructive to add to anything, so I don't ca